The Language Game
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'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins 'Full
of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly
original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel
Everett-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------What
is language? Why do we have it? Why does that matter?Language is
perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that
remains poorly understood.Upending centuries of scholarship
(including, most recently, Chomsky and Pinker) The Language Game
shows how people learn to talk not by acquiring fixed meanings and
rules, but by picking up, reusing, and recombining countless
linguistic fragments in novel ways. Drawing on entertaining and
persuasive examples from across the world the book explains:· How
our short-lived memory copes with the on-rushing deluge of sound
that is everyday speech.· Why it is that language is such a
challenge for language scientists but learnt effortlessly by
toddlers.· Why the languages of the world are so spectacularly
varied---and why no two people speak quite the same language.· Why
humans have language, but chimps don't.· How language gave us a big
brain and changed the course of evolution.· How language doesn't
limit, but does shape, how we think.·And ultimately, why all we
know about language should give us hope.Christiansen and Chater's
The Language Game draws on a fascinating range of examples to show
the way language works, has shaped our evolution and is critical to
our future.
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